Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Battleground. Korea: 525 miles long, 90 to 200 miles wide; paddyfields in the west and south, mountains reaching to 9,000 ft., inadequate roads, temperatures ranging from 120°F in summer to 16° in winter. Viet Nam: 1,200 miles long by (on the average) 90 miles wide, more than twice the size of Florida; paddyfields, jungles, mountains temperatures averaging a humid 92° in the lowlands, reaching as low as 28° in the mountains...
...political problems, however, could obscure the very real triumph that the day was meant to observe. The two-lane Mont Blanc tunnel, air-conditioned and equipped with ultramodern radar traffic control, will shorten the road between Paris and Rome by 125 miles-even more when the long winter snows close the Alpine passes. It is expected to be used by at least 1.2 million vehicles a year, each of which will pay tolls ranging from $3.25 (for a small European car) to $20 (for a bus). Just before its Italian entrance, a proud new road sign told the essential fact...
Peter Cummings'66, president of the Courier and a member of the Harvard Crimson editorial board, said he hoped to enlarge the Alabama edition (the first contained six pages) and to inaugurate other statewide editions before the end of the summer. The Courier will continue to operate during the winter, when it will be manned chiefly by Southerners...
...year is 1867. With winter due, the city of Denver has been hit by a liquor shortage. In ten days the saloons will be bone dry unless a wagon train can get through with the likker. So 40 wagonloads of champagne and whisky go lumbering across the plains on a collision course with a band of footsore Denver vigilantes determined to protect the booze, a tribe of thirsty Sioux Indians who want to drink it, and a U.S. Cavalry troop led by Captain Jim Hutton set on heading off the Sioux. Meanwhile, a temperance-minded suffragette (Lee Remick) fields...
Commodore Vanderbilt was a rowdy illiterate who wore a fur coat winter and summer and bellowed, "What do I care about the law? Hain't I got the power?" Big Jim Fisk was an ebullient bluffer who wore velvet vests and many rings, was shot to death by his mistress' lover. Dapper Jay Gould was a consumptive neurotic who was once led by a doctor from a board of directors' meeting in raving hysteria. These great robber barons all had the stuff of celebrity, and all of them have already been documented to death. But not Russell...